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Articles tagged with: cancer
MPs diagnosed with cancer: 'If you so much as cough, someone wants your seat'
Health
By Sienna Rodgers
MPs diagnosed with cancer: 'If you so much as cough, someone wants your seat'
One felt unsupported by their party; all made every effort to continue working throughout their treatment. Sienna Rodgers speaks to four MPs diagnosed with cancer while serving constituents
Early diagnosis and timely treatment: Why both are key to improving cancer survival Partner content
Health
By MSD
Early diagnosis and timely treatment: Why both are key to improving cancer survival
The government and NHS’s positive action on early diagnosis must be matched with an equal focus on timely treatment if we are to deliver a step change in cancer survival. David Long, Business Unit Director for Oncology at MSD UK, explains how current NHS pressures need not be a barrier to patients receiving the right treatment at the right time.
What happened to breast screening in England? Partner content
Health
By Breast Cancer Now
What happened to breast screening in England?
From one of the NHS’s biggest success stories to breaking point, Breast Cancer Now highlights what needs to happen to protect, recover, and invest in the breast screening programme, so we can turn the tide to save more women’s lives from breast cancer.
Showing how exercise can give people with cancer more life to live Partner content
Health
By Yorkshire Cancer Research
Showing how exercise can give people with cancer more life to live
Yorkshire Cancer Research is Yorkshire’s independent cancer charity and is at the heart of worldwide cancer research and innovation as it rolls out a pioneering exercise and wellbeing programme for people with cancer across the region. Our vision is that one day everyone with a cancer diagnosis in Yorkshire and beyond can benefit from these services.
UV Exposure, Sunbeds and Tanning: 6 Things You Probably Didn't Know Partner content
Health
By The Sunbed Association
UV Exposure, Sunbeds and Tanning: 6 Things You Probably Didn't Know
Taking proper care in the sun is extremely important, we all agree on that. Yet,
exposure to UV light carries both risks and benefits and over the last few decades, the focus has only been on the risk of over-exposure and that sunlight should be avoided at all costs. But in the last few years, an increasing number of studies have identified bias in older research and that moderate exposure to UV light may outweigh the risk of over-exposure.
Tackling inequalities to achieve cervical cancer elimination Partner content
Health
By MSD
Tackling inequalities to achieve cervical cancer elimination
Merck Sharp & Dohme (UK) Limited has funded and had editorial control over this article
Partner content
Health
By Medicines Discovery Catapult
Industry-First Cancer Screening Technology Boosted by Biomedical Grant Funding
Medicines Discovery Catapult and SMi secure funding to validate cancer biomarker technology.
Putting the spotlight on children with cancer Partner content
Health
By Great Ormond Street Hospital
Putting the spotlight on children with cancer
The word ‘cancer’ is one that nobody wants to hear, particularly in relation to a child. But for thousands of families across the UK, it is now their reality.
The Chris Bryant interview: 'It is a bizarre irony that I am chair of the Committee on Standards'
Political parties
By Tali Fraser
The Chris Bryant interview: "It is a bizarre irony that I am chair of the Committee on Standards"
Chris Bryant has been through a few political scrapes, so recognises the irony that he is now chair of the Standards Committee. He tells Tali Fraser about the recent furore in the division lobbies, trying to hold his tongue and surviving cancer. Photography by Louise Haywood-Schiefer.
Putting women at the heart of the 10 Year Cancer Plan Partner content
Health
By Hologic
Putting women at the heart of the 10 Year Cancer Plan
Hologic UK and Ireland’s General Manager, Tim Simpson, outlines three steps to ensure cancer screening delivers positive outcomes for women over the next decade.
The Treasury can't bail everyone out – let’s impose a levy on the tobacco industry instead
Health
By Steve Brine MP
The Treasury can't bail everyone out – let’s impose a levy on the tobacco industry instead
The past two years have laid bare underlying health disparities across the UK.
Let’s Mark International Women’s Day by Improving Cancer Screening for UK Women Partner content
Health
By Hologic
Let’s Mark International Women’s Day by Improving Cancer Screening for UK Women
We must make cancer screening accessible to all women in the UK by ensuring preventative healthcare is a priority.
It’s time for a men’s health strategy
Health
By Nick Fletcher MP
It’s time for a men’s health strategy
One of my ambitions when becoming a Member of Parliament in 2019 was to try and make a positive difference, especially in areas I felt there was little political focus, but where there should be.
Health inequalities leave those in deprived regions most at risk of cancer Partner content
Health
By Policy@Manchester
Health inequalities leave those in deprived regions most at risk of cancer
Financial and health inequalities are seeing cancer care in the most deprived regions of the UK fall behind – so how can we level up prevention, diagnosis, and treatment?
The NHS Must Direct Resources Into Earlier Cancer Diagnosis
Coronavirus
By John Baron MP
The NHS Must Direct Resources Into Earlier Cancer Diagnosis
It is vital the NHS strains every sinew to detect cancers that may have gone undiagnosed during the pandemic.
Failing to address the cancer backlog could see survival rates fall for the first time in decades
Health
By Barbara Keeley MP
Failing to address the cancer backlog could see survival rates fall for the first time in decades
The Health and Social Care Select Committee has just held the last of its evidence sessions in its current inquiry into cancer services in England.
Grasping the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other innovations in cancer screening Partner content
Coronavirus
By Hologic
Grasping the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other innovations in cancer screening
COVID-19 has been a catalyst for change, with the diagnostics industry taking centre stage and rising to the challenge of a global pandemic. One of the positive outcomes has been the amount of time and focus the sector has dedicated to finding new technologies and solutions to improve operational and clinical outcomes.
Cervical screenings save lives
Health
By Alex Davies-Jones MP
Cervical screenings save lives
In 2016, I was diagnosed with CIN3 and abnormal cells which have a high chance of becoming cancerous if left untreated. I had to have surgery and now live without the majority of my cervix. It is a story that I was hesitant to open up about because of the stigma that sadly still exists.
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Communities
By Betting And Gaming Council
Top charities the odds-on favourites to benefit after betting firms agree to donate profits from flagship race
Some of the UK’s top charities are in line for a major cash boost after the country’s biggest betting operators agreed to donate all of their profits from a flagship horse race.